TTRPG Databases

Let's say I want to find a synopsis of a movie. I can check IMDB, that's a pretty good resource. Let's say I want to find a synopsis of a novel. I'd probably try wikipedia for that one. These are both very broad community-maintained resources, if not truly neutral they're at least generally acceptable.

If I want a synopsis of a TTRPG system? suddenly things become much trickier.

There's a few contributing factors here I think. For one thing TTRPGs are so information dense that it might be more apt to compare a system summary to the plot AND the set and costuming AND the cinematography, so this might be a little unfair to expect in the first place. But it still feels weird to me. If I want relatively brief summaries of a system I have to look into specific community archives (like the old 1d4chan wiki, or Something Awful's community read-through archives) or search for individual reviews from independent bloggers. The closest I've seen to what I'm envisioning as a "neutral ground" TTRPG database is RPGGeek. They do good work there, but they don't have much in the way of system summaries. I'm interested in investigating French site Le Grog more closely for how it handles things.

We got a reminder of how fragile the TTRPG ecosystem really is just last week, when Itch went down temporarily as a result of overbearing copyright claim by Funko (yes that Funko). I guess I'm worried that without much in the way of easily accessible reference points, we're going to have short memories and lose track of each others' work.